EFF slams ANC decision to appoint Mokgoro as North West Premier

The EFF says the ANC is simply replacing corruption with corruption...

After frantic panic to meet a 30-day deadline and no agreement from the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC), the ANC’s National Working Committee (NWC) eventually decided that Job Mokgoro would be the new Premier in the North West.

On Thursday evening, Mokgoro was sworn in as a Member of the Provincial Legislature. The EFF and its North West members are furious.

While Mokgoro is replacing the recently ousted/“early retirement” taking Supra Mahumapelo, the red party believes he helped build the corruption in the province.

“Professor Job Mokgoro is nothing but an extension of the corrupt cabal of the disgraced Supra Mahumapelo who was forced out of office after the emergency of a series of corruption scandals in his administration.

“The appointment of Mokgoro is a zero sum game in a sense that the man laid the foundation for the prevalence of corruption in the North West province. The ANC has betrayed the aspirations of the people of the North West province by deploying a premier that had a hand in the current corrupt state of affairs in the province.”

The EFF says that it was under Mokgoro’s tenure as acting director-general in the Office of the Premier that The New Age was illegally awarded a distribution tender. The New Age, of course, was owned by the Gupta family.

“Mokgoro went against the advice of the legal unit in the Office of the Premier and awarded the tender which was never advertised, let alone taken through the supply chain management processes.”

There has also been a bit of irony with Mokgoro’s appointment. While Mahumapelo took “early retirement” at 49 years of age, the man replacing him is 70.

Mahumapelo stepped down after residents took to the streets in protest against the corrupt administration and lack of service delivery.